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title: Astana's chief planner, Vladimir Laptev, wants to build a Berlin in… — Astana · tree and pragmatics
description: Astana's chief planner, Vladimir Laptev, wants to build a Berlin in a Eurasian style. Who acts: chief planner. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Astana» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Astana, sentence 152

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From Wikipedia, [«Astana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Astana's chief planner, Vladimir Laptev, wants to build a Berlin in a Eurasian style.

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**Who acts:** chief planner · **What happens:** want, build · **To what, where:** Berlin, Eurasian style

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Astana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief planner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Astana:152
# text = Astana's chief planner, Vladimir Laptev, wants to build a Berlin in a Eurasian style.
1	Astana	Astana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	planner	planner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Vladimir	Vladimir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	Laptev	Laptev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Eurasian	eurasian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Astana's chief planner |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Astana's chief planner *not said here* | a Berlin |  | a Eurasian style |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset berlin=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Astana», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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